Annette has been involved in amateur and professional theatre for over 40 years as a director, adjudicator and teacher. Her work has taken her to Japan, Europe, the United States and across Canada. She has adjudicated more than 120 festivals in the past 27 years, including being the only North American to adjudicate the IATA World Theatre Festival in Monaco. Annette has also adjudicated the National Festival for the American Association of Community Theatre four times. For her work as an Adjudicator in the United States she was made a Fellow of AACT in 2009 for “single-handedly raising the level of community theatre in America.” She is the only non-American to hold this lifetime honour. In 2010 Annette published the only textbook on adjudication Do You See What I See.

Annette was one of the founders of the Lighthouse Festival in Port Dover and is currently Artistic Director of New Actors’ Colony Theatre in Bala, Ontario where professional theatre in Canada started in 1939.

AWARDS

The Elsie - Outstanding Production

Peterborough Theatre Guild - "The Mouse House"

Nominated: "The December Man / L'homme de décembre", The Curtain Club, Richmond Hill

Nominated: Anita Lalonde as Jayne Fine, "The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls", Gore Bay Theatre and Shannon McMullan as Jo-Jo Fine, "The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine girls", Gore Bay Theatre

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Supporting Role